Peter Hutton
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1944-08-24
Day of Death
2016-06-25 (71 years old)
Place of Birth
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Peter Hutton
Biography
Peter Hutton (born 1944 in Detroit, Michigan) was an experimental filmmaker, known primarily for his silent cinematic portraits of cities and landscapes around the world. He also worked as a professional cinematographer, most notably for his former student Ken Burns. Hutton studied painting, sculpture and film at the San Francisco Art Institute. He taught filmmaking at CalArts, Hampshire College, Harvard University, SUNY Purchase, and Bard College, where he served as the director of the Film and Electronic Arts Program from 1989 to 2016. Hutton's films are distributed by Canyon Cinema in San Francisco. In May 2008 the Museum of Modern Art in New York held a full retrospective of Hutton's films.
Known For
Acting
(2018)
(2015)
(2007)
(2004)
Certain Women
as Clementine's Dad
(1970)
Crew
For Horatio Alger
Director
Lenin Portrait
Director
(2015)
(2013)
Three Landscapes
Director
(2012)
(2009)
Sweetgrass
Thanks
(2008)
The Gates
Additional Camera
(2007)
At Sea
Director, Cinematography
(2004)
Skagafjördur
Director
(2003)
Two Rivers
Director
(2001)
Looking at the Sea
Director
(2000)
Time and Tide
Director, Director of Photography, Editor
(1997)
Study of a River
Director
(1993)
Lodz Symphony
Director
(1991)
In Titan's Goblet
Director, Cinematography
(1991)
Sketches for Late City Final
Director
(1990)
New York Portrait
Director
(1990)
New York Portrait, Chapter III
Director
(1987)
Landscape (for Manon)
Director
(1986)
(1986)
No Picnic
Director of Photography
(1985)
The Statue of Liberty
Cinematography
(1983)
Born in Flames
Additional Camera
(1981)
New York Portrait, Chapter II
Director
(1979)
Boston Fire
Director
(1979)
New York Portrait, Chapter I
Director
(1975)
Florence
Director, Cinematography
(1974)
(1972)
New York Near Sleep for Saskia
Director
(1971)
(1970)
In Marin County
Director